This gorgeous photo (by Tim Brunson -- see comment below) is now several years old, but I saw deer on these 80 endangered acres yesterday Oct. 17, 2015. This is of the little manmade Duck Pond that even by the time of this picture had been neglected for a few years. It is right at the intersection of Riverside Parkway and Turner-McCall Boulevard. This is only a small part of the land that five of the candidates for City Commission would sell, fill, and pave over with "gated" apartments, strip mall, and a restaurant or two. Yes to progress. Yes to growth. Yes to business. Yes to restaurants and other businesses.
BUT NOT ON OUR PARK LAND!!!!
(Excuse me for shouting but five sets of ears among the candidates in this campaign have seemed stoppered on this topic for at least the past six years.)
Comments:
Ruth Pinson: I miss the duck pond!!!
Glenda Almond: I took the kids in the 60's and early 70's to feed the ducks at two or three times a week.
Terrell Shaw: I think a landscaped well-tended little pond there with a few picnic tables would add a nice scenic break to the "urban" corridor of Turner-McCall/ShorterAve.
Bill Schroeder: I want to give the photographer credit for this great photo. Tim Brunson with the Water Department shot this one day a few years ago with a basic fuji digital camera from the side of the road on Riverside Parkway just off of Turner McCall Blvd. This is the old Duck Pond right across from Starbucks. The Civic Center is behind the deer to the right up the embankment. But it looks like something taken out west somewhere.
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